Psycholinguistics: A cross-language perspective

Annual Review of Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue , 2001, Pages 369-396

  Bates, Elizabeth ^a   Devescovi, Antonella ^a   Wulfeck, Beverly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Cross linguistic; Language development

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

APHASIA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035227726     PISSN: 00664308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.369     Document Type: Review

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